[and this was obviously meant to be sent to the list]
Simon Norberg wrote:
Hello,
I mailed Richard Stallman a while ago regarding a few things including
what he thought about openmoko and his answer was:
I could endorse it if they get rid of the plan to use non-free
software for the GPS.
I don't think the answer surprise anyone, but atleast we know for sure
now. And i really hope we can replace the non-free GPS software as soon
as possible or atleast before the public release.
I'm still wondering *why* we need to use an AGPS device that's so dumb
that it needs the *host* to do most of the calculations, when we could
have used a SIRF-STAR III sensor, that does everything inside, just like
the GSM/GPRS module.
this sounds like this thing is the winmodem / winprinter of the GPS world
Regards
Simon Norberg
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